You will need the following resources:

The cards in HOTS1.doc
contain some lower-order questions and, focusing on the same
mathematical topic, some more challenging questions - ones that
require higher-order thinking skills. Pair them up.

Now, with colleagues, answer the following questions:

What do you think higher-order thinking skills are?

What do tasks that encourage higher-order thinking skills look
like?

Look at these notes on higher-order thinking skills and compare
them with your ideas. Are there any major differences? What is your
response to those differences?

The
second task

Instead of replacing a lower-order problem with a different
problem, we can often modify it. How can we adapt lower-order maths
problems so they promote HOTS? HOTS2.doc outlines four key
strategies that will help to increase the challenge of standard
questions in the classroom:

Here's the answer, what could the question be?

Make up your own ...

What if ...?

All answers

Look at a problem you have recently set one of your classes and
discuss how it could be transformed into one requiring higher-order
thinking skills. Jot down your ideas and keep them for
Activity 2.2 .